One, I don't want to "hold sway" over others. Two, different opinions isn't toxic. Belittling someone, making up strawmen to make them "the bad guy," is toxic. The CC community has changed in 3 years, and not for the better, sadly.
Ok, imagine a muscular guy, no shirt, wearing black pants, suspenders, top hat, a beard, then throw a steampunk robotic arm on with a steampunk robotic back piece. Simplistic color scheme all around. Sure its... sort of tech... but by that reasoning, someone makes a human body in swimtrunks... and throws a monstrous head…
Again my point is made, now comes total misrepresentation of what was said. The toxicity is the very responses like this. No one wants to actually discuss, just mock, insult, and revile the person rocking the boat.
I never spammed anything, especially the Contests channel, nice strawman. And, this is what klls CO for me in general. People even admit theres constant bias and partiality. And their response, throw up strawman accusations. Nice job. Toxic community is toxic.
This why I said the CC community has become toxic. They do what they want how they want, and no one can say anything about how they do it, lest they be made a pariah and told to STFU and smile and clap. There really does need to be a set of standards for CC's, if those that run them want to have any sort of reputation or…
BTW, I don't look for overturns. I just would like to have contests better describe what they are judging for. If I go into a CC, I would like to know the judges are gonna be partial to a particular sub genre of it. Which was in evidence by the zone mistell of one of the judges before said results were announced. This is…